Alas, that Spring should vanish with the...
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[Alas,]1 that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close
The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence and whither flown again who knows?
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1 after the first edition, FitzGerald has: "Yet Ah!" This was numbered 72 in edition 1, 104 in edition 2, and then 96 thereafter.
Input by Barbara Miller
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 by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
, no title, 1896 [tenor, piano], from In a Persian Garden, no. 15.
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
, no title, 1896 [satb, piano], from In a Persian Garden, no. 22.
Date added to the website: 2006-04-08.
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